Sentence examples for conflicting statutes from inspiring English sources
The court ruled, in effect, that when there are conflicting statutes, common sense and good practice must rule.
As Mr. Gore's lawyers pointed out in their brief, it was a ruling based on solid precedents and sound principles about finding an equitable solution to conflicting statutes.
OLCC spokesman Mark Pettinger said there's been talk about co-location of medical and recreational marijuana under one roof, "but that would require a 'fix' by the Oregon legislature, because there are conflicting statutes regarding regulatory authority".
In the case of Mr. Lautenberg's Senate seat, New Jersey law had conflicting statutes on succession.
It added that the Florida Supreme Court "forcefully reinforced the principle that the people's right to speak through the ballot is more important than the conflicting statutes, ambitious national and state politicians or squadrons of inventive lawyers".
Because both constitutions are rigid, this means that ordinary national statutes conflicting with such law are unconstitutional.
The state appealed the decision that allowed same-sex couples statewide to be listed, saying it conflicted with Arkansas statutes and left birth registrars in legal limbo.
The law, which passed the city's Board of Supervisors in 2006, had been successfully challenged by a local restaurant trade group, which argued that it would violate a 1974 federal statute that prohibits conflicting local, state and federal benefit plans.
The federal government sued, saying the statute conflicted with federal immigration laws and policies.
It is exactly this ambiguity in the "statutory framework," he said, that has made the state's marriage statute the subject of conflicting interpretations, fueling battles in court and in the court of public opinion.
The trucking industry, supported by the federal government, warns to the contrary that the Maine statute opens the door to the very patchwork of conflicting state regulations that Congress meant to pre-empt when it deregulated motor transportation.
